Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
President Donald Trump has turned a controversial industrial policy experiment into a personal talking point, boasting that his administration “picked up” a multibillion dollar stake in Intel at a bargain price. The brag hinges on a simple story: taxpayers put cash into a struggling chipmaker, the stock surged, and the paper gains now look enormous….
Tax season 2026 is shaping up to be unusually lucrative for households, and that extra cash will not sit idle. A sweeping tax package is set to lift average refunds by roughly $1,000 per household, creating a powerful, time‑boxed jolt to consumer spending. I expect that surge to ripple quickly through specific corners of retail,…
President Donald Trump is racing to rebrand himself as a cost-of-living crusader, rolling out a fresh “affordability” playbook just as frustration over high prices hardens into a defining political threat. The agenda promises cheaper housing, lighter credit-card bills, and relief from everyday debt, but its mix of populist targets and Wall Street-friendly tweaks is already…
OpenAI has become the emblem of the artificial intelligence boom, yet some of the people paid to scrutinize balance sheets now argue its business model looks dangerously fragile. As one top asset manager warns that the company is “likely headed for financial disaster,” the debate is shifting from whether AI will transform the economy to…
Investors spent the past two years bidding up anything with a whiff of artificial intelligence, but the software names that were supposed to be the biggest winners are suddenly out of favor. The same companies that power corporate workflows, cybersecurity and cloud management are now trading like yesterday’s story as money chases chipmakers and flashy…
Investors are staring at a rare pairing of big numbers and bigger promises: a global robotaxi market projected to reach $105 billion by 2035 and forecasts that Tesla could be worth as much as $3 trillion as soon as 2026. The stakes are obvious, but the path from today’s experimental fleets to that kind of…
A brutal Arctic blast has collided with the most power-hungry corner of the U.S. economy, sending electricity prices spiking across the Mid-Atlantic just as households crank up their heat. In America’s data center alley, where server farms already dominate local demand, the latest winter storm has turned a long‑running tension between digital growth and grid…
After years of sticker shock, the new car market finally stopped sprinting ahead in 2024. Prices barely moved compared with the pandemic spike, even as dealers dangled more discounts and used vehicles quietly got cheaper. Now President Donald Trump is racing to claim that plateau as proof his policies are working. The reality is more…
Investors hunting for upside surprises this earnings season are zeroing in on a small group of high‑beta names where expectations still look beatable. Bloom Energy and Lumentum sit at the center of that conversation, with a mix of improving fundamentals, skeptical sentiment, and technical momentum that often precedes outperformance. I see a similar setup in…
Apple’s stumble out of the gate in 2026 has not shaken Wall Street’s most vocal bulls. Instead, Goldman Sachs is leaning in, arguing that the recent weakness in the stock is a chance to build positions rather than bail out. I see that call resting on a mix of surprisingly strong recent earnings, a packed…